1 May 1945

TUESDAY, 1 MAY 1945

EUROPEAN THEATER OF OPERATIONS (ETO)

AIRBORNE OPERATIONS (IX Troop Carrier Command): During May, the 303d, 305th
and 306th Troop Carrier Squadrons, 442d Troop Carrier Group, based at
St-Andre-de-L'Eure, France with C-47, begins operating from Metz, France.

STRATEGIC OPERATIONS (Eighth Air Force): 2 missions are flown.
Mission 973: 396 B-17s are dispatched to drop food supplies in the Hague
(237) and Rotterdam (155), the Netherlands; a total of 777.1 tons of food are
dropped.
Mission 974: During the night of 1/2 May, 4 of 5 B-24s drop leaflets in
Germany.

TACTICAL OPERATIONS (Ninth Air Force): 9 A-26s bomb an ammunition plant at
Stod, Czechoslovakia. The IX Tactical Air Command escorts the bombers, flies
airfield cover, and patrols the Leipzig-Schwarzenberg, Germany area. The XIX
Tactical Air Command flies patrols and armed reconnaissance over E Germany, W
Czechoslovakia, and Austria, dive-bombs Berchtesgaden, and operates with the
US XII Corps which is advancing SE between the Danube River and the Czech
border and N into Czechoslovakia N of Passau, Germany, and with the XX Corps
whose advance elements speed toward the Inn River at Wasserburg, Germany;
the 353d and 355th Fighter Squadrons, 354th Fighter Group, move from Ober
Olm to Ansbach, Germany with P-47s.